It's hard enough anyone growing older. For those growing older with any form of disability, it's much harder to know how they may age. We can never know for sure how that will manifest, or what we may have to deal with.

Wisdom and growing older

But it's not just the physical symptoms that may change for anyone growing older, it's the added weight of all the years, and your experiences piling up behind you. I call those experiences, but wisdom doesn't always follow your experiences.

We can notch up experiences, but that doesn't always mean we've notched up understanding or an acceptance on our experiences and without both, there is little to no wisdom.

Ageing with a physical disability

When it comes to a physical disability, we trust that what we initially get to deal with will continue, and there will be no further developing symptoms, but that's not a guarantee. When I was initially diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia a few months ago by a holistic clinician, I had been dealing with jaw, teeth and facial pain for months.

My maxillofacial specialist visit

Then an already pre-arranged visit to a maxillofacial specialist and an x-ray and I came away with the right diagnosis, one that is easier to manage, but I still deal with jaw, ear and facial pain.

As I sleepily clambered down the stairs to take some paracetamol, I went back upstairs to put a heat disc on the nerve pain area, then fell asleep again. The difficulty and concern is not knowing what I may have to deal with next, living with a physical disability.